Krita vs Photoshop

Photo editing, manipulation and creation have always been tough tasks for designers so a lot of IT organizations released different photo editing software to ease this task. People often get confused in choosing the right software so we will compare two famous photo editing and image manipulation software, Adobe Photoshop and Krita. Both of these softwares are very advance and provide a large number of robust tools to ease designing tasks. Adobe Photoshop is a paid software while Krita is free and open-source software.

What is Krita?

Krita is computer software which is used to edit and create raster graphics. It is open-source software and is used in animation and digital painting applications. It was developed by Krita Foundation. Initially, it was released in 2005 and its stable version came in 2022. It is developed using C++ and Qt programming languages. It provides a simple user interface. It supports various operating systems like Windows, macOS, Linux, Android etc.

Advantages of Krita:

• It is open-source software so it has large community support.
• It comes with a large number of brushes which help in creating complex digital artwork.
• It allows 2D animation and image editing in an easy manner.
• It comes with drag and drop functionality to ease in the animation process.
• It comes with free customizable templates.

Limitations of Krita:

• Layer managing features of Krita is confusing.
• It provides basic image editing features.
• Digital asset management is difficult in this software.

What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a graphic editor which is used to create and edit different types of images and allows users to save them in different formats. Thomas and John Knoll is known as its author and the development credit for this software goes to Adobe Incorporation. Initially, it was released in 1990 and its stable version was launched in 2022. It comes with a large number of tools to create and edit images like shape tools, selection tools, clone stamp tools, pen tools etc.

Advantages of Adobe Photoshop

• It is a professional photo editing software which helps in editing photos in an easy way.
• Almost all the image formats are supported by this software.
• It is available for various operating systems.
• It provides a large number of templates to use.
• It is an all-round software which produces high-quality images which are compatible with different platforms.

Disadvantages of Adobe Photoshop

• Buying for a lifetime is not available, only monthly and a yearly subscription is available.
• It is heavy software which requires a lot of memory and space on your system.

Following is a table of differences between Krita and Photoshop:

	Krita	Adobe Photoshop
1.	It can be defined as an image editing and manipulation software for raster graphics.	It can be understood as a pixel-based image editing software which is used to create, edit and manipulate images.
2.	It is open-source software.	It is not open-source software.
3.	It was developed by Krita Foundations.	It was developed by Adobe Incorporation.
4.	It is available for Linux and Android systems along with Windows and MacOS.	It is available for Windows and Mac operating systems only.
5.	It is available in fewer languages like English, Japanese, French and Russian	It is available in multiple languages.
6.	It is completely free software.	It is a paid software which costs $20.99 per month.
7.	It is built using C++ and Qt programming languages.	It is built using Pascal and C++ programming languages.
8.	Its files are saved with the .kra extension.	Its files are saved in PSD or PSB formats.